Our 'Lyin' Brian'
I trust the word of the latter one much more!
Posted on 02/04/2015 6:37:29 PM PST by servo1969
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday that he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, recanting a claim that he and the network had repeated for years -- most recently on Friday night.
Contrary to Williams' past claims that he was traveling in a Chinook helicopter that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire on March 24, he arrived at the scene in a separate helicopter about an hour later. He apparently was never in any danger, and the Chinook that took fire, one of three in its formation, was able to make an emergency landing with no casualties.
"I want to apologize," Williams said on Wednesday night's broadcast of NBC Nightly News. "I said I was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by RPG fire. I was instead in a following aircraft."
Williams, 55, most recently told the story during NBC coverage of a tribute to a retired command sergeant major at a New York Rangers hockey game.
“The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,” Williams said on the broadcast. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry.”
The Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that covers the United States Armed Forces, first reported the admission.
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Liar. You can’t recall whether or not your chopper was shot down?
Well, he did say he lied. He didn’t say he didn’t remember.
he is just another lying journolister
Well I guess Brian’s career with NBC is over.
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He did not admit he lied. Check it out.
Think his newly discovered integrity will compel him to resign from NBC? No? So why the sudden need to confess?
Credibility doesn’t matter if you’re just a paid Democrat liar.
Racist!
But, but, but.... Ted Cruz smoked marijuana!
Dan Rather faked being an ex-Marine for decades.
Brian Williams admits what we have all known for a long time he’s a LSOS.
Our 'Lyin' Brian'
I trust the word of the latter one much more!
I remember that Chopper ride and the gun fire it was very trying!
He said that he was not in a helicopter under fire. After saying he was. He is implying he lied. I read the article, did you?
I thought he said he “misremembered”
I heard him say the fog of memory had him confused. Hardly an admission of a lie.
I wonder if he spent Christmas in Cambodia with John Kerry.
I have long assumed that everything, every one of them says...is a lie.
The fact that they totally ignore certain stories en masse is also disinformation. They are totally doing the bidding of the social democrats...that’s why I call them RATagandists.
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